It was an essential route for international trade and was controlled by a British-French company.
Suez Canal
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What is the Space Race?
The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of new technology
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What were the satellite states during the Cold War?
Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and German Democratic Republic (GDR)
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This was founded in response to the Marshall Plan. Its goal was to coordinate the economic plans of the member countries and set a system of mutual help in the Eastern Bloc.
Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon)
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Explain the purpose or goal of the Warsaw Pact
A military alliance between the USSR and the European countries in the Soviet sphere, offering protection against attack from the Western Bloc.
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What was the city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII?
Berlin
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How did the arms race lead to the Cold War?
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Explain how did Cold War helped facilitate European decolonization process.
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This containment strategy was aimed at stopping or "containing" the spread of communism through a financial program.
Truman Doctrine
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Why was Spain excluded from the Marshall Plan?
It was not a democratic country.
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This multinational organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense/collective security in the Western world.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Name the generally accepted years for the start and end of the Cold War.
1945-1991
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The dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953.
Joseph Stalin
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Why is it called as "Cold" War?
When rival powers attack one another with propaganda and economic measures, and with a general policy of non-cooperation.
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The two sets of (economic-political) principles that were at odds during the Cold War.
Capitalism and Communism
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Gorbachev started these reform programs allowing him to renew the Soviet economic and political system
Perestoika (Reconstruction) and Glasnost (Transparency)
